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We are looking at organising a mini-series of presentations at WTN2021 looking at factors that affect turbine noise or its impact but are not generally part of the expertise of acousticians. This was prompted by an email after the Lisbon conference from Chris Feist who suggested a presentation on wind Read more
Councillors are being urged to make a formal objection to the proposed Sanquhar Windfarm II development. Scottish ministers, who will have the final say on the Community Windpower Limited project, are consulting with Dumfries and Galloway Council over the bid to erect 44 turbines on 2,728 hectares of land to Read more
Residents of a picturesque Highland glen have gone head-to-head with developers over a wind farm name change. Developer Vento Ludens has told residents in the areas likely to be impacted by the wind farm near Glen Affric that the project name has changed from Fasnakyle to Fiodhag. The proposal covers Read more
RESIDENTS are moving away from parts of south-west Scotland because they are losing much of the local landscape to wind farm developments, it has been claimed. Now Trevor and Elaine Procter, who live at Knockvennie, near Dumfries, are urging people to contact local councillors to object to the “tsunami” of Read more
By Andy Drane THE “green recovery” joins the growing list of Covid-era political maxims, suggesting a bright and environmentally sustainable post-pandemic future lies ahead. The Prime Minister once again alluded to it recently when he expressed his ambition to see the UK become the “world leader in clean wind energy”. Read more
ECU Reference: ECU00002141 Planning Authority: East Ayrshire Council; Dumfries and Galloway Council Construction and operation of Euchanhead Renewable Energy Development comprising 21 wind turbines, proposed energy storage facility and associated permanent and temporary ancillary infrastructure. Max Turbine Height: 230
London, 9 November: The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has today written to the chairman of the Treasury Committee of the House of Commons providing new evidence for their inquiry into the Net Zero target. The letter presents data from windfarm accounts showing that the wind industry has overestimated the Read more
I was astonished to hear a SEPA representative state that the latest explanation for sediment entering the Sandwater loch was “silty water was coming through a previously unidentified existing fracture in rock on the bed of a roadside ditch” and that they had looked into the matter after concerns were Read more